Screening The Recycling Myth
Date/Time: 18 January, 2022 19.00 CET
On 18 January 19.00 CET the full documentary The Recycling Myth will be screened, followed by a Q & A session with Mette Hoffmann Meyer CEO at The Why and Sedat Gündoğdu, Associate Professor at Cukurova University in Sarıçam/Adana, Turkey, Head of Microplastic Research Group, Marine Pollution Researcher.
About the documentary: As the plastic pollution crisis has become an international scandal, the biggest consumer goods brands on earth have declared they have a solution: recycling. But our plastic packaging is still more likely to end up being burned or dumped than recycled. We show how the oil, packaging and consumer goods industries spin the recycling fairytale to allow them to continue polluting without consequence. As we all pick up the bill for a world drowning in plastic, the film asks: who is getting rich?Learn more: www.a-o-buero.de/the-recycling-myth/ and www.thewhy.dk/whyplastic
You will receive a Zoom link by email latest 17th January after ordering your free ticket.
Trailer can be viewed below.
Bio of Mette Hoffman Meyer: Mette is Executive Producer at The Why. Mette was previously head of documentaries and co-productions at Denmark’s public service broadcasting cooperation, DR, and Editor of the factual series Documania on DR channel 2. Hoffman Meyer, helped finance films like the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, The Queen of Versailles, and the U.S.-Danish co-productions: Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer and the Sundance award winning film: The Red Chapel. She also spearheaded the projects Why Poverty? a series of eight films aired by 70 broadcasters, reaching more than 500 million people world wide.
This screening is hosted by Nina van Toulon and Nicola Murphy